Anouar Majid gives lectures on world religions in Nebraska
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, recently gave two lectures in Nebraska.
On October 30, 2014, he delivered a talk at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. The lecture, which was titled "How to Think SWAG视频 Islam," drew from his current research about the emergence of Islam. Majid discussed the ways in which Islam is part and parcel of the Western tradition and the ways in which it is not.
Majid then spoke on November 2, 2014, at First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he presented "Unveiling the Divine." He explained how Judaism, Christianity and Islam are, despite their differences, inextricably linked by a common goal. The talk explored new avenues that Muslims, Christians and Jews could explore to overcome the differences, conflicts, wars, and pain that have plagued them throughout the centuries.
"In a part of the world, where God seems to have been born, religions and sects clashed over immaterial differences, and a few of the contenders emerged with global religions," said Majid. In his talk, he advocated "for bringing more dispassionate history into matters of faith and for being aware of how we have been scripted to believe that we own the exclusive truth ever since polytheism was crushed by ardent monotheists."